The new owners kept the long standing tradition of evolving and changing the park. In 1988, Harry Stone and his son Ian, along with Neil Kapp, bought the park from its founders, and in 2004 Alon Shatil joined the ownership team. Bob also recounts hosting poolside parties in the famous riverside swimming pool followed by a barbeque and dancing on the shuffle board dance floor. He shot a ball between two limbs of a tree, off an obstacle and landed it back on the range to the cheer of the crowd. Bob performed trick shots including his favorite. He created innovative programs like his weekly Golf Demonstrations.
WALLY WORLD PRO
They also hired the now famous golf pro Bob Martin to manage the park. Over time the original owners started adding new attractions such as batting cages, waterslides and a go-kart track. There was also a larger-than-usual mini-golf course called Putt-R-Golf. The new executive 18-hole course undertaken by the new ownership was designed by renowned course architect Clinton “Robbie” Robinson, who has designed over 140 courses in Canada, US and South America.
In its early days, East Park was mostly about golf. Branton, the first owner of the property who had dreams of a Country Club Style resort he called Branton Acres – East Park was launched on its path of ‘fun’ for the first 50 years. With the vision and foresight of Roy James and the other founding partners including his son Roscoe, Mowbray Sifton and James Windsor and the inspiration provided by T.J. Was it a sense for business or was it a sense of playfulness? Regardless, it proved successful. One has to wonder what it was that brought the 10 prominent London families together in 1963 to found East Park. That is why East Park has become London’s Place to Play! Whether they are rocketing a little white ball down a fairway or throwing themselves down a waterslide, Londoners have made “playtime” a priority.
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